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Newsletter Nr. 1.458
Amsterdam, November 26, 2025


The Intellectual Ghetto and Power-play of Flatland - Joe Corbett

Falsifiability and predictability are pitched as the twin pillars of legitimate knowledge, the stern guards at the gate who pronounce, with the air of clinical certainty, what counts as true and what merely pretends to be. But the moment you listen closely, the edifice looks less like a sturdy temple of understanding and more like a neatly labeled vending machine: you feed in the right test, you pull the lever, you get a predictable result, and everyone nods as if the world has been neatly categorized and boxed. 

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Pan-Interiorism in Context - Between Idealism, Panpsychism, and Teleological Metaphysics - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber's self-label pan-interiorist is meant to distinguish his position from both reductive materialism and classical idealism. On the surface, it sounds like a refined metaphysical stance—suggesting that interiority or subjectivity pervades all levels of reality. In practice, however, it places Wilber firmly inside a rapidly evolving territory in contemporary philosophy of mind occupied by panpsychists, cosmopsychists, neutral monists, and process ontologists.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser683.html

Dreamwork in Support of Evolutionary Emergence, The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 9 - Joseph Dillard / ChatGPT

Life is a Rorschach test. Each of us gazes into the inkblot of our experience. We draw out patterns that mirror our assumptions. We can and will project onto the ambiguity of our experience whatever assumptions we hold because our survival depends on it. This tendency to perceive order in the formless has a name: pareidolia. We see constellations in random stars, faces on Mars, the “man in the Moon.” We turn clouds into animals and chance into fate.

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https://www.integralworld.net/dillard160.html